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USNS Mercy

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USHS Comfort (AH-3)

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Nurses and patients aboard USS Relief

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USS Comfort (AH-6) crew and medical staff pose on deck prior to departing for the war zone on 29 May 1944 from San Pedro, California.

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Navy nurse and patients aboard USS Sanctuary in the 1960s

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"And Every Soul Was Saved" by Thomas M. M. Hemy

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USS Repose on station during 1967 USS Forrestal fire

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Navy nurse aboard the USS Sanctuary in the 1960s

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The theater was designed by the architect Albert Kahn and constructed before the Battle of Midway during World War II. It is eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service officials said that the theater is not in use. Six murals were removed from the theater and sent to the Pacific Aviation Museum for preservation and display.

GAO Report - June 2, 2016 - Stated - "Cable Houses - Eligible for inclusion in the National Register of HIstoric Places. The mess hall was built by the Commercial PAcific Cable COmpany in 1903 for the employees who operated the relaty stations for the first trans-Pacific telegraph line. It is eligible for inclusion in the NAtional Register of HIstoric Places. U.S. FIsh & Wildlife Service officials said that the building is not in use and cannot be restored."

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The ORBIS teddy bear stays behind with the young patient!

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Laser and Examination Room on board the MD-10 aircraft.

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Bob Ranck, President and CEO of ORBIS International, demonstrates the usefulness of the Omega teddy bears in the recovery room of the MD-10 aircraft. ORBIS carries 700-pounds of teddy bears during a typical mission.

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Following the marker's unveiling, a ceremonial cake cutting was performed to recognize the 150th anniversary. Two special guests appeared - Commodore John Barry, USN and Ms. Clara Barton, ably re-enacted by LCDR Ralph Day of the National Capitol Commandery, and Ms. DIana Ingraham, Executive DIrector of the Hill Center.

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Mess Attendant Charles Walter David, Jr.

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Charles David Jr., is the first Sentinel Class Fast Response Cutter to be homeported in Key West.

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R.W. Anderson (left), who was rescued by David, looks on while RADM S. V. Parker presents the Navy and Marine Corps Medal to Mrs. Kathleen W. David, and Neil David, the wife and son of Mess Attendant David.

A Thomas Butterworth painting depicting the HMS Endymion and USS President at around 7:00 pm on the night of January 15th, 1815 when the ships turn to the South and brailed up their spankers in order to exchange broadsides.

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by Adam Makos Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American sharecropper’s son from Mississippi, Jesse became the navy’s first black carrier pilot, defending a nation that wouldn’t even serve him in a bar. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2015

by Jeffry Cox Finalist for NOUS' 2015 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature A fresh look at the disastrous Java Sea Campaign of 1941–42 which heralded a wave of Japanese naval victories in the Pacific but which eventually sowed the seeds of their eventual change in fortunes. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2014

by Tim McGrath Winner of NOUS' 2016 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature America in 1775 was on the verge of revolution—or, more likely, disastrous defeat. After England’s King George sent hundreds of ships to bottle up American harbors and prey on American shipping, John Adams of Massachusetts proposed a bold solution: The Continental Congress should raise a navy. “A meticulous, adrenaline-filled account of the earliest days of the Continental Navy.”—New York Times Bestselling Author Laurence Bergreen Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: NAL; Reprint edition 2015

by Craig Symonds Winner of NOUS' 2015 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Craig L. Symonds now offers the complete story of this Olympian effort, involving transports, escorts, gunfire support ships, and landing craft of every possible size and function. The obstacles to success were many. In addition to divergent strategic views and cultural frictions, the Anglo-Americans had to overcome German U-boats, Russian impatience, fierce competition for insufficient shipping, training disasters, and a thousand other impediments, including logistical bottlenecks and disinformation schemes. Symonds includes vivid portraits of the key decision-makers, from Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill, to Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, and Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who commanded the naval element of the invasion. Indeed, the critical role of the naval forces--British and American, Coast Guard and Navy--is central throughout. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2014

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by Ed Offley Finalist for NOUS' 2015 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of the bloody U-boat offensive along America’s east coast during the first half of 1942, using the story of Degen’s three war patrols as a lens through which to view this forgotten chapter of World War II. A gripping tale of heroism and sacrifice, The Burning Shore leads readers into a little-known theater of World War II, where Hitler’s U-boats came close to winning the Battle of the Atlantic before American sailors and airmen could finally drive them away. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Basic Books, 2014

by John Laurence Busch The story told in STEAM COFFIN represents an important event in the history of humanity, because the Savannah is far more than the first "steamship." With her successful crossing of the Atlantic Ocean, the human race recognized that it would be able to use an artificial power to alter time and space to practical effect on a global scale. As such, the steamship Savannah represents the first example of globalized high technology in history. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Hodos Historia, 2010

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by Bing West Finalist for NOUS' 2015 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion. “West shows the reality of modern warfare in a way that is utterly gripping.”—Max Boot, author of Invisible Armies Bing West, a Marine combat veteran, served as an assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration. He has been on hundreds of patrols in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2015

by Dr. J. Phillip London What creates success? Is it skill? Talent? Ambition? Luck?Expertise? Perhaps it’s knowing the right people, saying the right things or simply being at the right place at the right time. It’s none of the above. While a variety of factors form our abilities and influence the events in our lives, there is only one thing that creates genuine success: Character. Based on the personal, corporate and military experiences of Dr. J. Phillip London, a successful defense industry executive, as well as many other real-life examples, this book presents the time-tested lessons behind character-driven success. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Fortis Publishing , 2013

by Chuck Veit Sea Miner is the reconstructed story of the U.S. Navy’s ultra-secret torpedo development program of 1862-3, which resulted in a ship-launched rocket-powered kinetic energy projectile a century ahead of its time. The brainchild of Army Major Edward B. Hunt, the veil of secrecy lasted over 150 years, until an odd newspaper headline provided the first hint that such advanced research had been successfully undertaken at so early a date. Sea Miner received the 2016 Award in Narrative Non-fiction from the Independent Publishers of New England. Other books of interest include A Dog Before a Soldier, which tells the story of the U.S. Navy in the War of the Rebellion, and Raising Missouri, that presents the never-before-told epic of the loss and salvage of one of our first two steam-powered warships. Ordering Info: chuckveitbooks.com Amazon Published: 2016

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by Richard Snow Winner of NOUS' 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, took a radical step to combat the Union blockade, building an iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project, and, in panicky desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, an entirely revolutionary iron warship. Rushed through to completion in just one hundred days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret. The ship hurried south from Brooklyn, only to arrive to find the Merrimack had already sunk half the Union fleet—and would be back to finish the job. When she returned, the Monitor was there. She fought the Merrimack to a standstill, and, many believe, saved the Union cause. As soon as word of the fight spread, Great Britain—the foremost sea power of the day—ceased work on all wooden ships. A thousand-year-old tradition ended and the naval future opened. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Scribner, 2016

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by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver Finalist for NOUS' 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature An account of the breakout from the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea by the First Marine Division from November to December 1950, following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Based on first-person interviews from surviving veterans who came to be known as the “Frozen Chosen,” this is the incredible story of heroism and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds, as a handful of Marines fought desperately against wave after wave of Chinese forces. Sometimes forced into desperate hand-to-hand fighting in intense cold, cut off from reinforcements, and with dwindling supplies and ammunition, the fighting retreat from Chosin marked one of the darkest moments for Western forces in Korea, it but would go on to resonate with generations of Marines as a symbol of the Marine Corps' dogged determination, fighting skill, and never-say-die attitude on the battlefield. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Osprey Publishing, 2016

by Thomas Alexander Hughes Finalist for NOUS' 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature William Halsey, the most famous naval officer of World War II, was known for fearlessness, steely resolve, and impulsive errors. In this definitive biography, Thomas Hughes punctures the popular caricature of the fighting admiral to present a revealing human portrait of his personal and professional life as it was lived in times of war and peace. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2016

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by Paul E. Pedisich Finalist for NOUS' 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Offers a new look at the nexus of U.S. politics, economics, and the funding and creation of what is thought of as the "modern" U.S. Navy. Filling in significant gaps in prior economic histories of the era, Paul Pedisich analyzes the role played by nine presidencies and cabinets, sixteen Navy secretaries, and countless U.S. congressmen whose work and actions shaped and funded our forces at sea. Surveying the development of the new steel Navy from 1881 to 1921, Pedisich's narrative begins with James Garfield's appointment of William Hunt as Secretary of the Navy and the formation of the forty-seventh Congress in March 1881, and continues on to the reduction of the naval forces by the Washington Naval Treaty of 1921. While the main acts in U.S. political history often privilege the actions of the President and his cabinet, the author brings to light the individual rationales, voting blocs, agendas, and political intrigue that drove this process of making a modern Navy. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2016

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by John Prados Finalist for NOUS' 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature As Allied ships prepared for the invasion of the Philippine island of Leyte, every available warship, submarine and airplane was placed on alert while Japanese admiral Kurita Takeo stalked Admiral William F. Halsey’s unwitting American armada. It was the beginning of the epic Battle of Leyte Gulf—the greatest naval battle in history. Acclaimed historian John Prados gives readers an unprecedented look at both sides of this titanic naval clash, demonstrating that, despite the Americans’ overwhelming superiority in firepower and supplies, the Japanese achieved their goal, inflicting grave damage on U.S. forces. And for the first time, readers will have access to the naval intelligence reports that influenced key strategic decisions on both sides. Drawing upon a wealth of untapped sources—U.S. and Japanese military records, diaries, declassified intelligence reports and postwar interrogation transcripts—Prados offers up a masterful narrative of naval conflict on an epic scale. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Caliber, Penguin Group (USA), 2016

by Suzanne Geissler Finalist for NOUS' 2016 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Gallons of ink have been used analyzing Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan's thoughts, his naval theories, and his contribution to sea power. One vital aspect of his life, however, has been ignored or misunderstood by many scholars: his religious faith. Mahan was a professing Christian who took his faith with the utmost seriousness, and as a result, his worldview was inherently Christian. He wrote and spoke extensively on religious issues, a point frequently ignored by many historians. This is a fundamental mistake, for a deeper and more accurate understanding of Mahan as a person and as a naval theorist can be gained by a meaningful examination of his religious beliefs. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2015

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by Stephen L. Moore Finalist for NOUS' 2016 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature Amid a seeming stalemate, a small group of U.S. Navy dive-bombers is called upon to help determine the island’s fate. When their carriers are lost, they are forced to operate from Henderson Field, a small dirt-and-gravel airstrip on Guadalcanal. They help form the Cactus Air Force, tasked with making dangerous flights from their jungle airfield while holding the line against Japanese air assaults, warship bombardments, and sniper attacks from the jungle. When the Japanese launch a final offensive to take the island, these dive-bomber jocks answer the call of duty—turning back an enemy warship armada, fighter planes, and a convoy of troop transports. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: New American Library (Penguin Random House), 2015

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by Vincent O'Hara Finalist for NOUS' 2016 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature World War II had many superlatives, but none like Operation Torch—a series of simultaneous amphibious landings, audacious commando and paratroop assaults, and the Atlantic’s biggest naval battle, fought across a two thousand mile span of coastline in French North Africa. The risk was enormous, the scale breathtaking, the preparations rushed, the training inadequate, and the ramifications profound. Torch was the first combined Allied offensive and key to how the Second World War unfolded politically and militarily. Nonetheless, historians have treated the subject lightly, perhaps because of its many ambiguities. As a surprise invasion of a neutral nation, it recalled German attacks against countries like Belgium, Norway, and Yugoslavia. The operation’s rationale was to aid Russia but did not do this. It was supposed to get Americans troops into the fight against Germany but did so only because it failed to achieve its short-term military goals. There is still debate whether Torch advanced the fight against the Axis, or was a wasteful dispersion of Allied strength and actually prolonged the war. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2015

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by John Wukovits Finalist for NOUS' 2016 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey heroically withstood twenty-two kamikaze attacks at Okinawa in what the US Navy called "one of the great sea epics of the war." Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian John Wukovits breathes life into this nearly forgotten event and makes the ordeal of the Laffeyand her crew a story for the ages. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Da Capo Press, 2015

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by Richard Snow Winner of NOUS' 2017 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature No single sea battle has had more far-reaching consequences than the one fought in Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1862. The Confederacy, with no fleet of its own, took a radical step to combat the Union blockade, building an iron fort containing ten heavy guns on the hull of a captured Union frigate named the Merrimack. The North got word of the project, and, in panicky desperation, commissioned an eccentric inventor named John Ericsson to build the Monitor, an entirely revolutionary iron warship. Rushed through to completion in just one hundred days, it mounted only two guns, but they were housed in a shot-proof revolving turret. The ship hurried south from Brooklyn, only to arrive to find the Merrimack had already sunk half the Union fleet—and would be back to finish the job. When she returned, the Monitor was there. She fought the Merrimack to a standstill, and, many believe, saved the Union cause. As soon as word of the fight spread, Great Britain—the foremost sea power of the day—ceased work on all wooden ships. A thousand-year-old tradition ended and the naval future opened. Ordering Info: Amazon Publisher: Scribner, 2016

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Charleston Companions (l-r) Tom Brown, Bob Williams, and John Witty display the 115 lb. bronze marker commissioned by the Charleston Commandery. The marker commemorates the Charleston birthplace of Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, U.S. Navy. Moffett, a surface warfare officer and Medal of Honor recipient for his valorous night assault of Veracruz, served twelve years as the first Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and is hailed as “The Architect of Naval Aviation.” The Naval Order of the United States Charleston Commandery will have an unveiling and dedication ceremony. All NOUS Companions are welcome to attend the event at 3:00 pm on Sunday, April 22, 2018. The site is 65 St. Philip Street in Charleston, South Carolina. The plaque will be mounted on the street-side of Maybank Hall of the College of Charleston, which now occupies the lot where the Moffett home was. A reception will follow directly across the street in the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. For additional information, please contact Bob Besal at 843.298.1223.

The Naval Order of the United States Charleston Commandery will have an unveiling and dedication ceremony on Sunday, 22 April 2018. All NOUS Companions are welcome to attend the event. Charleston Companions (l-r) Tom Brown, Bob Williams, and John Witty display the 115 lb. bronze marker commissioned by the Charleston Commandery. The marker commemorates the Charleston birthplace of Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, U.S. Navy. Moffett, a surface warfare officer and Medal of Honor recipient for his valorous night assault of Veracruz, served twelve years as the first Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, and is hailed as “The Architect of Naval Aviation.”

Only one of the 17 ships that split off convoy PQ17 made it to Murmansk through the ravaging U-Boat wolfpacks. It was mid 1942. The Soviets were our wary allies and they needed materiale support. There were many more ships in PQ17. Most were lost in the attacks. The British Fleet command pulled support off PQ17 to bottle up the German Battleships - Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen. This left the convoy "naked" and totally exposed to destruction in the cold and deadly Barents Sea. Ivo Duvall was there. His tiny corvette was virtually useless in defense of the merchant ships. Duvall's full hour long interview is on DVD and will be presented to the Library of Congress as part of the Veterans History Project. Duvall also participated in many Pacific battles. More about our efforts at www.me3tv.org. Search YOUTUBE for more on PQ17

Gene Schindler started out Dec 7 1941 two days out of Manila where he had been kicked out of radio school for being awol. (Nearly ALL the radio students in class then at Manila later died or were executed by the Japanese). His entire Navy career he could never amass 4 years of good conduct - THUS his "RED" hashmarks instead of "gold". His first battles were with the Asiatic Fleet and the Java Sea in USS Paul Jones (a four piper can). This story picks up with the USS Gwin. Great story teller and a tremendous history. (look for 7 more clips with Schindler - the stories came "out of order in time". ) http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh.... Catch all the clips under the "veterans" collection at http://www.me3tv.org (youtube) See photos from the Asiatic Fleet Web Page links - http://www.usasiaticfleet.org

The U.S. Naval War College (NWC) unveiled the public online digitization project of Fleet Adm. Chester Nimitz's 4,000 page operational diary, known as The Nimitz Graybook, during an evening lecture, Feb. 24 at NWC in Newport, R.I. Covering activities and correspondence of the Pacific Command from Dec. 7, 1941 to Aug. 31, 1945, the Graybook is a historical record of operations and planning in the Pacific during World War II and serves as a window into Nimitz's decision making process during the war. The Nimitz Graybook can be accessed at http://www.usnwc.edu/graybook.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

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Dr. Ron Chapman presents the poorly understood story of the real battle for New Orleans between the American and British armies. He reveals that, contrary to popular opinion, the results played an important role in the western expansion of the USA. This lecture was given at the 2015 national convention of the Naval Order of the United States held New Orleans.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

The Naval Order of the United States raised private money to erect a monument on Utah Beach dedicated to the memory of the US naval forces who played a significant role in the victory of the Normandy invasion -1944. At the dedication was the US ambassador to France as well as the Deputy of the Defense Dept. This segment only a small part of a much larger DVD made by the Naval Order commemorating the D-day landing.

COL Jonathan Mendes, USMC (ret.) flew SBD Dive Bombers in the Pacific ( 100 missions) and Panther Jets in Korea (70 missions). He taught Ted Williams and John Glenn how to fly and has an amazing history both military and civilian. COL Mendes is the oldest person to ever complete the New York Marathon at age 96. Interviewed by Don Schuld, New York Commandery. Filmed by Ken Kraetzer, Vice President of CBSI. kkraetzer@cbsiservices.com

COL Jonathan Mendes, USMC (ret.) flew SBD Dive Bombers in the Pacific ( 100 missions) and Panther Jets in Korea (70 missions). And he taught Ted Williams and John Glenn how to fly. He has an amazing history both military and civilian. COL Mendes is the oldest person to ever complete the New York Marathon at age 96. Interviewed by Don Schuld, Naval Order of the United States, New York Commandery.

COL Jonathan De SolaMendes, USMC (ret.) flew SBD Dive Bombers in the Pacific ( 100 missions) and Panther Jets in Korea (70 missions). And he taught Ted Williams and John Glenn how to fly. He has an amazing history both military and civilian. COL Mendes is the oldest person to ever complete the New York Marathon at age 96. Interviewed by Don Schuld, Naval Order of the United States, New York Commandery.

by Joe Buff The year is 2011, and in South Africa a reactionary coup has established a military government that has begun sinking U.S. and British merchant ships. NATO quickly responds, with only Germany holding back - until Germany starts nuking Poland and eviscerating the French. Now the South Atlantic is a battleground where nuclear-tipped missiles rule - and the only gun worth using is one that seeks and fires from deep beneath the sea. In response, Lieutenant Commander Jeffrey Fuller and the crew of the nuclear submarine USS Challenger are called in to help. Ceramic-hulled and designed for maximum stealth, the Challenger is being sent to South Africa for a mission critical to stopping the war. Together with a team of Navy SEALs and assisted by Boer freedom fighter Ilse Reebeck, Commander Fuller must infiltrate the enemy coast and attack a compound where scientists are putting together the ultimate biological weapon - a violent, deadly microbe that has the potential to wreak global devastation. For Jeffrey Fuller, the operation will take him back to his former life as a SEAL. It's his job to steer the team of operatives to shore penetrate concentric arcs of armaments, minefields, and sensors and destroy the death lab. If the mission works, the bioweapon will be destroyed and shock waves will cripple the South African government. If it goes wrong, fallout will kill thousands of innocent people. Author: readermail@joebuff.com Publisher: Bantam/Random House, 2000 hardcover, 2001 paperback Ordering Info: Amazon, all brick-and-mortar & on-line bookstores, or via www.JoeBuff.com

by Douglas V. Smith, Ph.D. Considers the transformation of the U.S. Navy from a defensive-minded coastal defense force into an offensive risk-taking navy in the very early stages of World War II. Noting that none of the navy’s most significant World War II leaders were commissioned before the Spanish-American War and none participated in any important offensive operations in World War I, Carrier Battles examines the premise that education, rather than experience in battle, accounts for that transformation. In this book, Smith evaluates his premise by focusing on the five carrier battles of the Second World War to determine the extent to which the inter-war education of the major operational commanders translated into their decision processes, and the extent to which their interaction during their educational experiences transformed them from risk-adverse to risk-accepting in their operational concepts. Covers the five carrier battles of World War II and many other important surface actions and critiques the decisions of the major commanders who fought them. Email: dvpj@cox.net Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute Press Annapolis, MD, 2006 Ordering Info: Naval Institute Press, Barnes & Noble, any bookstore chain branch, Amazon

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by Eric Dietrich-Berryman, Charlotte Hammond, R. E. White This is the untold story of twenty-two U.S. citizens who came to fight for England by volunteering for the Royal Navy before America entered the war. They were commissioned between September 10, 1939 and November 10, 1941. Most of the men were sent for training to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich thus initiating what was to become the famous " over here" phenomenon as the two different cultures learnt to adapt to each other's ways. The faculty recognized the arrival of the first three men with a commemorative plaque placed in the floor of Painted Hall on June 15, 1941. Mindful of the possible legal consequences, since foreign military service is against U.S. law and can result in loss of citizenship, the names were omitted from the plaque. The search for their identity began over 30 years ago. Additional names were added as they became known, along with details of their lives and military service. What makes this tale compelling is that the men actually made a significant impact on the war effort. Showing up was just the start. Some achieved remarkable accomplishments. This is the story of who they were, what they did and why, and what become of them. Email: berryman2@earthlink.net Publisher: Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 2010 Ordering Info: Amazon, Naval Institute Press, any bookstore chain branch

by James Tritten Interpretation of what the Soviets said they will do in the event of a nuclear war based on formal content analysis of the writings of Admiral Gorshkov and past Soviet ministers of defense and heads of the Politburo. Comparative hardware and exercise analysis. Constructs 3 possible scenarios. Examination of Soviet views on deterrence, strategic goals and missions of the fleet, nuclear targeting, SLOC disruption, tactical nuclear war at sea. Implications for Western defense strategy and arms control. Email: jtritten121@comcast.net Publisher: Westview Press, 1986 Ordering Info: Amazon

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by Bernard D. Cole China is now building a large modern navy to assure its status as Asia's predominant power. This major new study provides timely, authoritative information about China's developing navy and its quest for power. Dr. Cole examines China's navy in detail, its organization as well as its submarines, ships and airplanes. He also discusses its personnel and China's future plans for its navy. He asserts that Beijing's navy is focused on specific, limited goals, but that the reunification of Taiwan is one of those goals....and one that will involve the United States. Email: coleb@ndu.edu Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2001 Ordering Info: Amazon, bookstores, or direct: Customer Service, USNI Operations Center, 2062 Generals Highway, Annapolis MD 21401. 800-233-8764 or 410-224-3378. www.NavalInstitute.org

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by William S. Dudley A rich, nuanced history of Maryland’s waterways which reveals how human enterprise has affected and been affected by Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. Commencing with a summary of the colonial era, this book traces activities on the water from the Revolutionary War and Maryland’s State Navy to the War of 1812, and the Civil War, as well as the growth of Baltimore through by virtue of wealth gained from privateering, and the expansion of trade to the Far East. The author places bay commerce, shipbuilding, steamboats, oystering, crabbing, and fishing in their proper context. With the industrialization of the maritime industries, changes accelerated, causing the decline of working sail, the rise of recreational boating, the proliferation of marinas, and the spread of population to remote areas of the Chesapeake region. The decline of the health of the Chesapeake’s waters and the diminution of the fisheries are covered, as are governmental efforts to halt and reverse these trends. The author emphasizes the educational efforts of maritime museums and underwater archaeologists to interpret the forgotten and hidden history of the bay. He describes the naval institutions around the bay, such as the Washington Navy Yard, Naval Research Laboratory, the U.S. Naval Academy, the Amphibious Training Base at Solomons Island, Bainbridge Naval Training Center, and other important Navy and Coast Guard installations. Email: billdudley@starband.net Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010 Ordering Info: www.jhupress.edu – click on featured books. List price $50. Or order from Amazon for discounts.

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by James Tritten This book is an analysis of President Bush's Regional Defense Strategy first unveiled in Aspen, Colorado, on August 2, 1990. This strategy involves a mix of active, reserve, and reconstitutable forces, and General Colin Powell's Base Force. The new regional defense strategy is based upon the 25 percent budget cut negotiated with Congress, a greatly depleted threat from the former Soviet Union, and a new international security environment that assumes two-year's warning of a European-centered global war. Ordering Info: Amazon Email: jtritten121@comcast.net Publisher: Praeger Publishers, 1992

by Ty Martin A collection of anecdotes about individual crew members of USS Constitution from captain to boy embedded in a discussion of their organization and operation. Email: timonier@teleplex.net Publisher: Tryon Publishing Company, 2003 Ordering Info: GetTextbooks, www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org. Price $20.00.

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by Claude Berube, John Rodgaard Charles Stewart’s life of sailing and combat on the high seas rivals that of Patrick O’Brien’s Jack Aubrey. Stewart held more sea commands (eleven) than any other U.S. Navy captain and served longer (sixty-three years) than any officer in American naval history. He commanded every type of warship, from sloop to ship-of-the-line, and served every president from John Adams to Abraham Lincoln. Born in Philadelphia during the War for American Independence, Stewart had met President Washington and gone to sea as a cabin boy on a merchantman before age thirteen. In March 1798, at age nineteen, he received a commission one month before the formal establishment of the Department of the Navy. Stewart enjoyed an illustrious naval service. Thomas Jefferson recognized his exploits in the Mediterranean during the Barbary Wars, while James Madison sought his advice at the outset of the War of 1812. Stewart trained many future senior naval officers – including David Porter, David Dixon Porter and David Farragut. In his eighties, he served as a pallbearer at President Lincoln’s funeral. Yet, Stewart owed his reputation to the time spent as the most successful fighting commander of the USS Constitution. Undefeated in battle, including defeating the British warships HMS Cyane and Levant simultaneously, both ship and captain came to be known as “Old Ironsides”. Stewart’s service both mirrors and shaped the early history of the navy and country. Auhor: john_rodgaard@yahoo.com Publisher: Potomac Books, 2005 Ordering Info: Amazon, or directly from John Rodgaard at john_rodgaard@yahoo.com or 321.591.6123

by Joe Buff A new world war has begun. It is the year 2012, and extremists in Germany and South Africa have succeeded in staging simultaneous coups to forge the Berlin-Boer Axis, a cabal determined to take over the world. The key instrument of this war is tactical nuclear weaponry, where a single torpedo or cruise missile can destroy an entire ship or city. And while the war will be fought with high-tech weapons, it will be won or lost by the men who command them... Commander Jeffrey Fuller is America's newest hero. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his victories in battle as captain of America's most sophisticated and deadly fast-attack nuclear submarine, the USS Challenger, Fuller takes grim satisfaction in the honor, knowing at what cost it came. But he has barely enough time to receive the decoration before he is tasked with a new mission. An Allied convoy is steaming toward Africa, hoping to establish a beachhead on the continent. The enemy has dispatched its most lethal new submarine, the SMS Admiral von Scheer, to ensure that the convoy never reaches its destination. Fuller's mission is to protect the convoy at all costs. Then a nearly impossible mission gets even more difficult. The Berlin-Boer Axis is attempting to gain a foothold in South America, a development that would force the United States to fight the war on yet another front, an escalating conflict they can't possibly win. Now Fuller must make a no-win decision: deploy his team of Navy SEALs to South America to destroy the nuclear-armed enemy insurgents, or patrol the depths of the Atlantic seeking threats to the convoy? The failure of either mission will mean defeat for the Allied cause. Stalking his prey beneath the waves where the pressure alone can kill, Commander Jeffrey Fuller knows that while one man's life may be meaningless, one man's death could change the course of the war. Email: readermail@joebuff.com Publisher: Morrow/HarperTorch, 2003 hardcover, 2004 paperback Ordering Info: Amazon, all brick-and-mortar & on-line bookstores, or via www.JoeBuff.com

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by Joe Buff The next world war rages. With the Allies at a stalemate with the Berlin-Boer Axis, every battle takes on a new significance. But in a conflict fought with billion-dollar technology and campaigns comprising millions of soldiers, the outcome may rest in the hands of a single man... Commander Jeffrey Fuller, captain of America's most sophisticated and deadly fast-attack nuclear submarine, the USS Challenger, is accustomed to victory in battle. But for his latest mission he is informed that the only way he can succeed is if he crosses into enemy waters -- without firing a single shot. His objective: recover a spy. The world of espionage is unknown territory for Fuller. He is ordered to locate an asset, code-named Zeno, who may hold the key to staving off a crippling Axis attack. But this new world is full of lies, feints, and betrayals. In combat, Fuller always knows who his enemy is and how to defeat him. In the shadow world of covert operatives and counterintelligence, the distinction between enemy and ally is far more elusive. And it only gets more complicated. Steaming toward his target, Fuller and his crew begin to suspect that the spy they have been sent to retrieve may in fact be a subterfuge, a ploy intended to lure the Allies' most dangerous weapon into enemy hands. With the clock ticking down to an invasion that could alter the course of the war, Fuller suspects that his new " friend" could even be a double agent, intent on using Challenger as a weapon against his own allies, destroying the fragile ties binding nations in war. Fuller is accustomed to the codes of the Silent Service, where loyalty is taken for granted, orders are followed without question, and battles are as precise as a torpedo's firing solution. But now he must adapt to a world where betrayers become the new patriots and lies are the instruments of destruction. With the lives of his crew and the fate of his country hanging in the balance, he will have to risk everything on the word of a man who has, for the last two years, served Fuller's most bitter enemies. Email: readermail@joebuff.com Publisher: Morrow/HarperTorch, 2004 hardcover, 2005 paperback Ordering Info: Amazon, all brick-and-mortar & on-line bookstores, or via JoeBuff.com

by Stan Piet & Captain Al Raithel, Jr, USN (Ret) Martin P6M SeaMaster is the definitive history of the U.S. Navy's last seaplane project to see flight status. This book chronicles the three decades of the Glenn L. Martin Company's seaplane lineage that lead to the post WW II evolution of the High Speed Minelayer seaplane program. Covered are the technical hull achievements along with the politico/military forces that converged to spawn the revolutionary four-jet Marrtin P6M SeaMaster. Full discussion of its design competition, prototype development and crashes, pre-production and production variants along with the details of its weapons systems is featured. Also detailed are the proposed basing concepts and support equipment developments, follow-on designs, including the nuclear-engine proposals, and a complete review of its untimely demise and termination. The 70,000 word softcover volume features 236 pages in 81/2 x 11 landscape format with 12 pages of photos in full color. Over 375 photos and illustrations with 3-views and an inboard profile foldout complete this fascinating but bittersweet story of the end of the U.S. Navy's reliance on the naval flying boat. Publisher: Martineer Press, 2001 Order Info: Amazon

by Zsolt Stockinger "From February 2005 to March 2006, Navy trauma surgeon Zsolt T. Stockinger served on a forward operating base in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, where he treated more than a thousand casualties and performed hundreds of surgeries. Throughout his deployment, he penned his more introspective thoughts and frustrations about his experiences in a journal that he occasionally sent to his wife as a way to stay connected. Stockinger's diary comprises a compendium of daily military life in Iraq from a surgeon's perspective, from the intense action of rocket attacks and emergency procedures to the creative and often lighthearted ways soldiers fill tedious stretches of down time. Illustrated with more than 50 photographs, this work provides a realistic portrait of life on base and a powerful perspective on the human carnage of war." Author: ztstockinger@gmail.com Publisher: McFarland and Co., 2012 Ordering Info: Amazon or other on-line bookstores

by Bob Rositzke Collection of stories about four major World War II naval campaigns and the Cold War. This video collection is part of a permanent display at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum. VHS 36:00. Email: bobr@empirevideo.com Publisher: Empire Video, Inc., 1998 Ordering Info: Call 703/866-1934. VISA/MC accepted. $15 (plus S& H)

by Ty Martin Describes the ship's unique construction features and takes her through her sailing in July 1997, the first in 116 years. Email: timonier@teleplex.net Publisher: Anchors Away, 1997 Run Time: 55 minutes Ordering Info: Amazon

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by William S. Dudley with J. Scott Harmon This book is both a history of the major events of the naval war and a catalog of the remarkable exhibit now (4/20/2013) on display at the Naval Academy’s Mahan Hall. The exhibit combines the Naval Academy’s extraordinary trove of War of 1812 art and artifacts and William I. Koch’s unique personal collection of art and artifacts pertaining to the career of Captain James Lawrence whom Koch claims as an ancestor. Dr. William S. Dudley, a former Director of Naval History, wrote the text with Dr. J. Scott Harmon, former Director of the Naval Academy Museum, who collaborated as curator of the exhibit which will be on display at Mahan Hall until November 2013. The book displays beautifully reproduced images of portraits, weapons, documents, maps, track charts, and ship models from the combined collections. Email: billdudley@starband.net Publisher: The Donning Company Publishers, Virginia Beach, VA, 2013 Ordering Info: www.navyonline.com Amazon

by John J. Gobbell In The Last Lieutenant, Navy Lieutenant Todd Ingram escaped the horrors of Corregidor. Now, in San Francisco, he agonizes over Helen Durand, the Army nurse he left behind, fighting for the resistance on Mindanao. Todd Ingram is befriended by Senior Lieutenant Eduard Dezhnev, the Soviet Naval attache’ to the USSR’s consulate there. But things go badly for the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific’s Solomon Islands and Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance orders Ingram to the destroyer U.S.S. Howell as executive officer. Right back in the fighting, Ingram is caught in two of the epic naval battles off Guadalcanal: the Battle of Cape Esperance and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Amidst this, Ingram reaches for Helen but her rescue is hampered by the espionage activities of Dezhnev, a man Ingram grew to trust and admire. With the war at its apex, Todd Ingram puts his life on the line not only for the girl he loves, but for his country, and for a world so perilously close to collapse. email: john@johnjgobbell.com Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1999 hardcover 2002 in print Ordering Info: Amazon, any major book store, Tin Can Sailors.

by John J. Gobbell Commander Todd Ingram stands on the bridge of his destroyer, U.S.S. Matthew (DD 525) when, suddenly, Japanese dive bombers plunge through the overcast. It’s a coordinated and devastating attack, the ship rocked by massive explosions. Concussions hurtle Ingram overboard, and helplessly, he watches his embattled ship stagger into the evening mist. He’s left behind as the Matthew’s crew desperately fights the fire and the Japanese. Ingram barely lasts the night, and early the next morning he whoops for joy as a periscope cuts a wake toward him through a glass-smooth sea. But joy turns to horror as the submarine surfaces. The submarine is the I-57 of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her skipper is Commander Hajime Shimada, recipient of Japan’s highest honor: Order of the Golden Kite. Also aboard the I-57 is Korvettenkapitän Martin Taubman, of the Kreigsmarine. Until recently, Taubman was the naval attache’ in Tokyo. With Hajime and the I-57's crew of forty-nine officers and men, Taubman is enroute home via the U-Boat pens in Lorient, France. Ingram works hard for his keep and endures beatings from his captors. But he’s assured by Taubman, who becomes a chess-playing partner, to obey his captors, to keep his head down and work, that he'll be safely interred in a POW camp in Germany after they arrive in Lorient. It’s only until the I-57 makes a secret rendezvous with her sistership, the I-49, in Madagascar’s Antongila Bay, that Ingram learns this is not just a simple technical exchange mission between Germany and Japan. The I-57's mission has far more personal, and deadlier ramifications. Worst of all, Ingram discovers Hajime plans to get rid of him before they reach Lorient. e-mail: john@johnjgobbell.com Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2004 hardcover Ordering Info: Amazon, any major bookstore, Tin Can Sailors

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by Ty Martin The complete history of USS Constitution (" Old Ironsides" ) from her authorization in 1794 to her bicentennial in 1997. The first edition (1980) received a George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation. This new edition received the 1997 Robert G. Albion/James Madison Award for Naval History from the National Maritime Historical Society and won the Naval History Center's Constitution Bicentennial Book Competition Prize. Email: timonier@teleplex.net Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 1997 (revised edition 6th printing (soft cover), 2003) Ordering Info: Amazon

by Ty Martin, Editor The edited journal of Acting Chaplain Assheton Y. Humphreys describing Constitution's final war cruise of 1815, including her defeat of HMS Cyane and HMS Levant and her narrow escape from a British squadron. Email: timonier@teleplex.net Publisher: Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company, 2000 Ordering Info: Amazon

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by Vance H. Morrison, Bruce Swanson, Don H. McDowell and Nancy Norton Tomasko This biography recounts the extraordinary life of I. V. Gillis, both as an officer in the U. S. Navy from 1994 to 1919 and as a collector of rare Chinese books. The book provides rare insight into little known aspects of the Spanish-American War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the enormous changes in China from 2011 until 1948. CDR Gillis, a Naval Academy graduate, commanded several U. S. Navy ships, was the first U. S. Naval Attaché in China, and remained in China until his death, marrying a Chinese princess and collecting books now housed at Princeton University’s East Asian Library. The original author, CDR Bruce Swanson, was unable to complete the book before his death in 2007 and asked Captain Vance Morrison, a former U. S. Naval Attaché in China himself, to finish and publish the book. Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2012 Ordering Info: Amazon

by Joe Buff It is the day after tomorrow. The lines have been redrawn, and crossed over. And the world is at war again. The cataclysm began with coordinated reactionary coups in South Africa and Germany. Overnight new enemies emerged to attack U.S. and European shipping lanes, setting off a global conflagration raging in deadly earnest. And the devastating weapons of choice used by the Berlin-Boer Axis are tactical nuclear weapons. The deep-diving state-of-the-art German boat Voortrekker prowls beneath the ocean's surface, carrying more onboard firepower than many of the world's nations. There is only one weapon in America's arsenal that can match the silent killer: the crippled sub USS Challenger, presently in dry dock in Connecticut. And the Voortrekker is moving into position for the ultimate strike. Brash, brilliant, and battle-tested, Captain Jeffrey Fuller is the driven naval officer who must oversee the miracle that will put Challenger back into action in forty-eight hours. Then Fuller himself will have to do the impossible, piloting his damaged sub toward a life-and-death confrontation with the Axis leviathan. Fuller has already faced the Voortrekker's ruthless commander before--and unlike so many others, he survived. This time the fight will take place at the ultimate submarine's crush depth, and the prize will be America. Email: readermail@joebuff.com Publisher: Morrow/HarperTorch, 2002 hardcover, 2003 paperback Ordering Info: Amazon, all brick-and-mortar & on-line bookstores, or via www.JoeBuff.com

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by Douglas V. Smith, Ph.D. Published to coincide with the Centennial Celebration of U.S. Naval Aviation, this book details the history of U.S. Navy Aviation from its earliest days, before the Navy’s first aircraft carrier joined the Fleet, through the modern jet era marked by the introduction of the F-18 Hornet. It tells how Naval Aviation got its start, profiles its pioneers, and explains the early bureaucracy that fostered and sometimes inhibited its growth. The book then turns to the refinement of carrier aviation doctrine and tactics and the rapid development of aircraft and carriers, highlighting the transition from propeller-driven aircraft to swept-wing jets in the period after World War II. Land-based Navy aircraft, rotary-wing aircraft, rigid airships and balloons are also considered in this sweeping tribute. Foreword by Navy Lieutenant George Herbert Walker Bush, 43rd President of the United States, who fought gallantly wearing the Navy Wings of Gold in the Pacific in World War II. Email: dvpj@cox.net Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2010 Ordering Info: Naval Institute Press, Barnes & Noble, any bookstore chain branch, Amazon

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by John Frank Gamboa, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.) ¡El Capitán! The Making of an American Naval Officer, is a remembrance my midshipman life at the U.S. Naval Academy and my service in the Navy’s naval surface warfare profession. A brief family sketch provides an ethnic and cultural context and my Mexican-immigrant parents’ pursuit of the American Dream in Owens Valley, California, where my six siblings and I were born and raised. The book portrays how I overcame educational, financial, ethnic and cultural barriers to enter the academy in July 1954, graduate in June 1958 and was commissioned a Navy Line Ensign. It describes my professional development of leadership, seamanship, surface warfare, technical and management skills in ranks from ensign to captain while serving in shipboard billets ranging from division officer to commanding officer and then squadron commander. The setting is primarily at sea—over 17 years of operational service during the Cold War aboard destroyers, a cruiser and six amphibious ships with extended forward deployments in the Sixth Fleet operating in the Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf, and in the Pacific Ocean Far East with the Seventh Fleet. My sea command focus was amphibious warfare. The memoir highlights my performance as the first Mexican-American naval surface warfare officer in the history of the U.S. Navy to command a major warship as a commander, another major warship as a captain and a squadron of seven amphibious warships as a captain. The epilogue includes a synthesis of what worked for me as a successful warship captain—my values, beliefs and lessons learned. John McCain, one of my three Naval Academy roommates, provided a foreword. Email: frank.gamboa@cox.net www.frankgamboa.com Publisher: Fortis Publishing, 2011 Ordering Info: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and can be ordered on line at book website www.frankgamboa.com

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by Terry Miller, Editor Eighteen members of the Secret Scurvy Dog Society writers group relate their own accounts, many humorous and some pointedly not, of life at sea on U.S. Navy destroyers during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War. Beginning with the question - Why the Navy? - and ending with reflections on how their experiences during hard lives at sea came to be considered cherished memories, these men, both officers and enlisted, tell the quintessential Sea Stories of the latter half of the 20th century. Scurvy Dogs, Green Water and Gunsmoke is the first joint effort for these writers, most of whom have been published previously in the Tin Can Sailor, the journal of the National Association of Destroyer Veterans. Email: terrymiller@destroyers.org Publisher: Oak Tree Press, 2008 Ordering Info: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Tin Can Sailors, Inc., Oak Tree Press

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by Stephen Sussna Defeat and Triumph tells the story of the still controversial, important, dramatic but little known Allied invasion of the French Riviera on August 15, 1944. This was known as Operation Anvil and later renamed Operation Dragoon. Notwithstanding the massive opposition of Winston Churchill, his military advisers, and many notable American Generals, Dragoon happened. After suffering four years of humiliating and devastating defeat, French men and women were assisted by their American and British Allies and this invasion ensured World War II victory in Europe. Defeat and Triumph: The Story of a Controversial Allied Invasion and French Rebirth thoroughly analyzes the pros and cons of Dragoon. The book provides a panoramic history of Operation Dragoon and related events in France, the United States, the Mediterranean, and Germany from 1940 to 1945. The author is in the unique position of having served on D Day of Dragoon as helmsman of LST 1012 (Landing Ship Tank). The LST 1012 participated in the most dangerous and tragic event of the invasion. Professor Sussna has gathered and analyzed a treasure trove of previously unpublished American, British, French, and German archival materials, diaries, letters, periodical articles, maps and interviews. E-mail: stevesussna@cs.com Publisher: XLIBRIS, 2008 Ordering Info: Amazon

by Joe Buff The Challenger is the weapon of the future, a ceramic-hulled nuclear attack submarine whose electronic eyes and ears are the most advanced ever created. It is commanded by acting captain Jeffrey Fuller, a former SEAL turned submariner whose aggressiveness has made him a rising star - and sometimes scares the hell out of his crew. Fuller's mission is to rescue the Virginia-class fast attack sub Texas, now lying on the bottom of the Atlantic just off the Azores. But the enemy - a newly resurrected and fanatically militaristic Germany - knows where the Texas is, too, and knows the Challenger is coming. It is the Challenger the Germans want, dispatching their own high-tech supersub, the Deutschland, to destroy her. In this war your enemy is a blip on a console hardwired into an integrated nuclear weapons system. Ships are vaporized off the surface of the sea, nuclear shock waves unleash deadly tsunami waves, and smart submarines do battle with smart aircraft sent to hunt them down. For Jeffrey Fuller and the Challenger, for the men on board the Deutschland, the race beneath the ocean's surface across a horrific underwater war zone will demand every bit of courage and skill they can muster just to survive. Before it's over, the Challenger's mission is radically redefined: Fuller, his SEALs, and freedom fighter Ilse Reebeck are sent into Germany itself - to plant a nuke right in the gut of the enemy's power structure. Email: readermail@joebuff.com Publisher: Bantam/Random House, 2001 hardcover, 2002 paperback Ordering Info: Amazon, all brick-and-mortar & on-line bookstores, or via www.JoeBuff.com

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by John J. Gobbell The Japanese siege of Bataan and Corregidor during World War II was one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history. Over 130,000 GIs and Filipinos were slaughtered on this oft-forgotten Pacific front. And if it were not for naval intelligence’s success in breaking the JN-25, the Japanese Navy code, Midway Island would have fallen as well, leaving Hawaii and perhaps even the West Coast of the United States for the taking. THE LAST LIEUTENANT, an unforgettable World War II thriller on part EYE OF THE NEEDLE and one part FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, captures the heart and soul of those who fought to stop worldwide fascism. With the eye for detail of a military historian and the writing skills that have brought comparison to John Le Carré and James Jones, John J. Gobbell takes his place among today’s finest historical thriller writers. THE LAST LIEUTENANT is Todd Ingram. Half-starved and beyond exhaustion, Ingram refuses to give up the fight when General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to the Japanese. As artillery blasts The Rock’s beaches and hillsides, Ingram commandeers a thirty-six foot launch with eleven other desperate men. But only Ingram knows the most dangerous threat of all: that a Nazi spy named Walter Radtke lies undiscovered aboard the submarine U.S.S. Wolfish, the last evacuation submarine off the island. The Nazis knows about Chester Nimitz’s plan to trap the Japanese fleet at Midway and needs just thirty seconds and a radio to get a warning dispatch to Yamamoto. Ingram must track down the spy through miles of Japanese-infested waters and stop him before the tide of the war turns irrevocably to the rising sun. Before Ingram can save himself, Helen Duran, the Army nurse he loves, and his men, he must save his country. Radtke knows that the U.S. navy has cracked the Japanese code and that Commander in Chief Chester Nimitz is planning a trap for the Japanese fleet at Midway. All Radtke needs is a radio and thirty seconds. email: john@johnjgobbell.com Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1995 Hardcover 1997 Ordering Info: Amazon

by John J. Gobbell With THE LAST LIEUTENANT and A CODE FOR TOMORROW, John J. Gobbell has firmly established himself as one of today's leading authors of epic war novels. His hero, Todd Ingram, has proven to be one of the most fascinating and endearing characters in the genre. In WHEN DUTY WHISPERS LOW, Lieutenant Commander Ingram faces his biggest challenge to date as his best friend turns against him when the chips are down. It's 1943 and the U.S. Navy is caught in a fierce battle against the Japanese in the South Pacific. At stake is the Allies newly won Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. But Isoroku Yamamoto, Admiral of the Combined Fleet and architect of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, desperately wants Guadalcanal back. Calling it “Operation I,” Yamamoto throws everything into the foray, scraping together top-line dive bombers and torpedo planes from all over the Pacific to carry out a series of Pearl-Harbor sized bombing raids in the Solomons. In response, the Allies introduce the proximity fuse to the fleet a top-secret anti-aircraft detonator that can greatly assist the U.S. Navy in their desperate fight against Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes. However, in the heat of battle Commander Jerry Landa refuses to use the fuse - and pays the price as his ship, the USS Howell, is torn in half by Japanese “Val” dive bombers. Lieutenant Commander Todd Ingram confronts Landa, questioning his authority as the two become enemies in the midst of battle. As Ingram and Landa fight to survive “Operation I,” Yamamoto personally directs the raids that will return him to the glory of December 7, 1941 raids that will facilitate the recapture of Guadalcanal and that will cripple the United States Navy forever. Filled with epic battles, romance, and the brutality of war, John J. Gobbell has crafted a tale that will transport the reader into the South Pacific during World War II--a story as vibrant and stunning as anything he has ever written. e-mail john@johnjgobbell.com Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 2002 hardcover 2004 softcover (in print) Ordering Info: Amazon, any major bookstore, Tin Can Sailors

by RADM Stuart F. Platt SC, USN (Ret.) The armament tide has begun to flow strongly again in the United States. This book will assist our Nation's leaders and the American people to better understand how to manage the business of rearmament during these flood tides. Drawing on historical anecdote, common business principals and the author's 31 years of military service, the book provides an entertaining and educational look at the complexities of arming the American military. Contact person is duffrey@armamenttide.com Publisher: Granville Island Publishing, 2002 Ordering Info: Amazon , local bookstore. You may also order fromwww.armamenttide.com on-line.

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by Don Landauer PEARL shows how the original natives came to Hawaii. Then it describes how European and American explorers and seamen came and affected Hawaiian culture. Then it documents how and why and when the United States Navy came, and subsequently how the two cultures related to each other. You Marines may be interested in the fact that the first ship (a captured British ship) into the Honolulu/Pearl Harbor area (in 1814)was commanded by a US Marine! Later the first US Marine detachment in 1906 deployed to the Honolulu area described Waikiki as a, " damned mosquito infested swamp" . The latest edition includes the Ehime Maru incident and the attack on New York and the Pentagon. The author was in the US Navy in 1945,6 and taught aboard 14 ships from 1990 to 1995 as a PACE instructor. Email: Dontahoe@oakweb.com (summer) Donkauai@msn.com (winter) Publisher: Flying Cloud Press, 1999, 3rd printing 2001 Ordering Info: Flying Cloud Press, Box 624002, S Lake Tahoe CA 96154 or USS Arizona Memorial, #1 USS Arizona Mem'l Place, Honolulu HI 96818. Price $21.95 + $2.50 S& H. Ten percent discount for USN & USMC veterans or Amazon

by Bob Rositzke "Henry Rodgers Ship Model Collection": Video: A close-up look at one of the largest and most valuable dockyard model collections in the world. These models, constructed from the mid-17th century through the late 19th century, are exact replicas of the British warships that won and preserved an empire. VHS Length: 17:00 Email: bobr@empirevideo.com Publisher: Empire Video, Inc., 1999 Ordering Info: Call 703-866-1934 VISA/MC $19.95 (plus S& H)

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by Bob Rositzke An inside look at life at the U.S. Naval Academy. Follow Midshipmen as they embark on the voyage of a lifetime. Length: 19:41 Email: bobr@empirevideo.com Publisher: Empire Video, Inc., 1995 Ordering Info: Call 703-866-1934. VISA/MC accepted. $15 (plus S& H)

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by Edward J. Marolda Yankee Station and Dixie Station . . . just two map coordinates in the South China Sea. But for much of the Vietnam War they were home to thousands of sailors on board the aircraft carriers of the U. S. Seventh Fleet. It was from these offshore oases that U. S. aircraft waged the heaviest bombing campaign in history, sending a rain of fire against the north, providing air support for U. S. troops in the south, and dispatching search and rescue missions to snatch grounded pilots from enemy territory. Email: marolda.edward@nhc.navy.mil Publisher: Bantam, 1987 Ordering Info: Amazon, available at large libraries

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by James Tritten Case studies of naval doctrine in UK, France, Spain, Italy and role of doctrine in paradigm shifts and revolutions in military affairs. Email: jtritten121@comcast.net Publisher: Naval War College Press, 1995 Ordering Info: Amazon

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by James Tritten This book analyzes President Bush's new Regional Defense Strategy--the master plan for guiding the transformation of U.S. defense policy in the post-Cold War era. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of the new strategy, analyzes the consequences for U.S. forces and alliance relations, and examines the political difficulties of transforming Bush's vision into reality. It explains major changes in U.S. defense doctrine and strategy, force and command structure, future programming requirements, and how such change has been managed. Ordering Info: Amazon Email: jtritten121@comcast.net Publisher: Praeger Publishers, 1992

by Thomas G. Mahnken Uncovering Ways of War substantially revises the perception of how American intelligence performed prior to World War II. Mahnken challenges the assumption that intelligence regarding foreign militaries had little influence on the development of U.S. weapons and doctrine. Finally, he explains the obstacles these agencies must still negotiate as they seek to understand foreign efforts to exploit the information revolution. Email: tgmahnken@aol.com Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2002 Ordering Info: Amazon

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by Ty Martin The story of USS Constitution's victorious service in the War of 1812. Email: timonier@teleplex.net Publisher: Tryon Publishing Company, 1996 (3rd printing, 2001) Ordering Info: Amazon

by Dennis Koller Winner 2017 Silver Medal, Mystery/Thriller, Military Writers Society of America "I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith . . . So help me God." A lifetime ago, two young Naval aviators took that Oath. Both were shot down over North Vietnam and together endured years of brutal torture as prisoners of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton. Four decades later, one is a San Francisco Homicide Inspector. The other has decided it’s payback time and has begun killing selected Americans who went to North Vietnam to aid the enemy's cause. The Oath, that once made them brothers-in-arms, now threatens to destroy their lives. "An exciting and well written story with a plot that could have been a real life biography, or dream, of many Vietnam Veterans during and since Jane Fonda’s visit to Hanoi." LCDR Richard Pariseau, USN (Ret.) USNA ’60, PhD Email: denniskollerauthor@gmail.com Publisher: Pen Books, 2016 Ordering Info: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and can be ordered online at book website www.denniskoller.com

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by James D. Hornfischer The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower. Drawing on new primary sources and personal accounts by Americans and Japanese alike, here is a thrilling narrative of the climactic end stage of the Pacific War, focusing on the U.S. invasion of the Mariana Islands in June 1944 and the momentous events that it triggered. With its thunderous assault into Japan's inner defensive perimeter, America crossed the threshold of total war. From the seaborne invasion of Saipan to the stunning aerial battles of the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, to the largest banzai attack of the war and the strategic bombing effort that led to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Marianas became the fulcrum of the drive to compel Tokyo to surrender with consequences that forever changed modern war. James D. Hornfischer is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Neptune's Inferno, Ship of Ghosts, and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award. Email: jh@hornfischerlit.com Publisher: Bantam, 2016 Ordering Info: Amazon, and can be ordered online at book website jameshornfischer.com

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by G. E. Beyer, U.S. Navy (Ret.) A collection of stories and tales about a WWII era and Cold War participant destroyer that served the US Navy from 1945 until 1980. While she was one of many, the tales told about this ship are unique and told by the officers and sailors that served on her. Mr. Beyer is also the author of Tin Can: An Incomplete History of the USS Fiske. He served aboard the Fiske from 1960-1963 and retired from the Navy in 1980. He resides in Sandpoint, Idaho. "My time aboard the Fiske was what made me decide to make a career of the Navy. The Med Cruises and our prolonged stay off the coast of Cuba in '62 are memory highlights in my Navy career. She was a great old lady, crewed by some of the best I ever served with." Email: ddr6063@gmail.com Published: 2017 Ordering Info: Amazon

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by William L. McGee On 7 August 1942, eight months to the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. 1st Marine Division landed on the islands of Tulagi and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. Thus was the beginning of the bloody and brutal six month Battle for Guadalcanal. For those who were there, Guadalcanal was not only a name, it was an emotion… recalling desperate fights in the air, furious naval battles during the night, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, and nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells. Under one cover, WWII military historian William L. McGee details all the campaigns fought in the Southern, Central and Northern Solomons—from Guadalcanal to Bougainville—and then summarizes the valuable lessons learned from these bloody battles. “There is enough gripping drama, heroism, and heartbreak in McGee’s almost encyclopedic The Solomons Campaigns to supply Hollywood with material for a century.” –Marine Corps League Magazine “A World War II navy veteran and prolific author, McGee has written the second of a three-volume set that will form a definitive account of naval, sea, and land operations in the South Pacific.” –Library Journal William L. McGee's (1925–) writing career has spanned six decades. He has written 22 books, including five World War II military histories. Pacific Express: The Critical Role of Military Logistics in World War II is on the Marine Corps Commandant’s Professional Reading List as required reading on Logistics. For a complete list of books by the author, visit www.WilliamMcGeeBooks.com. Email: mcgeebmc@aol.com Publisher: BMC Publications, 2001 Ordering Info: Amazon

by Bob Stockton, Chief Petty Officer, USN (Ret.) Many things may be said about Bob Stockton, but one of them can never be that he doesn't have a copious imagination. Throughout the pages of Fighting Bob, Stockton takes the reader on a nonstop, action-packed literary thrill ride rife with danger, suspense, and the all-too-familiar machinations of political intrigue. Led by his great-great-great grandfather, Commodore "Fighting Bob", Stockton embarks on a daunting quest that takes him everywhere from the front lines of the War Of 1812 to the throes of battle with Barbary Pirates - all in the midst of an hallucinogenic, drug-induced state. Readers should not be fooled, though: Fighting Bob features a host of eye-opening true-life accounts, highlighting the very real events that played a pivotal role in the birth and subsequent evolution of our very own United States. As such, Stockton's epic narrative paints a vivid, compelling picture of living, breathing history at it realest - and most raw. An enjoyable, adventure-laden read. Reviewed by US History Files, 2012. Author: drbob456x@gmail.com Publisher: AuthorHouse, 2011 Ordering Info: Amazon or contact the author for payment and shipping information.

by John Rodgaard, Robert Moore This is a ship biography of one of the 67 V & W Class destroyers built at the end of the Great War and scrapped at the end of World War II. After freezing in the forgotten war in the Baltic in 1919, Venomous spent the 1920s in the Mediterranean. She was in the front line when the German blitzkrieg swept across Europe and the V & Ws made high speed dashes across the Channel to bring troops (and civilians) back from Calais, Boulogne and Dunkirk. Venomous and her sister ships escorted the Atlantic convoys which kept Britain fed and the Arctic convoys which supplied our Russian allies with the weapons to stop the German advance. She took part in Operation Pedestal which saved Malta and, as the allies prepared for the landings in North Africa, was ordered to escort the destroyer depot ship, HMS Hecla, to the invasion beaches. When Hecla was torpedoed off the coast of Morocco, Venomous fought the attacking U-Boat and rescued 500 survivors. Venomous escorted convoys along the coast of north Africa including the first through convoy from Gibraltar to Alexandria and the invasion force to Sicily, Operation Husky. In October 1943 she returned to Britain and was converted to an Air Target ship for training Barracuda Torpedo Bomber aircrew based at Douglas in the Isle of Man. She was nearly lost in a hurricane off the east coast of Scotland before being sent to Kristiansand in Norway to accept the surrender of German naval forces. This third revised edition contains dozens of photographs taken by the ship's company; most have never been seen before. Author: john_rodgaard@yahoo.com Publisher: Holywell House Publishing, UK, 2017 Ordering Info: Amazon, or directly from the author.

by Rick Campbell On a routine patrol, USS Kentucky, a Trident ballistic missile submarine carrying a full complement of nuclear warheads, receives a launch order. What Kentucky's crew doesn't know is that the order did not come from the U.S. government but from a rogue intelligence group - one with operatives secretly embedded within Western intelligence organizations who are intent on using Kentucky to carry out a devastating agenda. Iran has completed its first nuclear weapon and, in ten days, will detonate it. The target is Israel. The rogue operatives penetrate the safeguards and send the submarine a nuclear launch order, which will destroy Iran before Iran can destroy Israel. The U.S. government quickly detects the launch order, but Kentucky does not respond to the termination order, and time is running out... Now it's up to a senior Navy officer - whose own son is aboard Kentucky - to find, intercept, and neutralize the submarine before it unleashes a nuclear attack. As the conspiracy slowly unfolds and the deception grows ever deeper, it's up to one man to somehow do the impossible: Save millions of lives - and the fate of the world itself. Email: rick@rickcampbellauthor.com Publisher: Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 2014 Ordering Info: Amazon or wherever you buy your books (hardcover, paperback, eBook, and audiobook)

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by Ken Brown The "Second Happy Time" was the informal name given to the phase of the battle of the Atlantic when German U-boats attacked both merchant and U.S. naval vessels along America's east coast. With tankers burning and petrol rationing in New York City, the U.S. Navy seemed powerless to stop the deprivations of Hitler's marauding U-boats. Ken Brown seeks to explain how the United States responded to these deadly assaults and looks at the steps that the Navy Department took to train the men, harness the scientists, and make the organizational changes that were required to defeat the German threat. Email: thekenbrown@yahoo.com Publisher: Naval Institute Press, 2017 Ordering Info: Amazon, Barnes & Noble

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by Anthony Piscitelli The Marine Corps Way of War: The Evolution of the U.S. Marine Corps from Attrition to Maneuver Warfare in the Post-Vietnam Era examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia. As author Anthony Piscitelli demonstrates, the USMC has maintained its position as the nation's foremost striking force while shifting its thrust from a reliance upon attrition to a return to maneuver warfare. Piscitelli methodically explains the evolution by using traditional and first-person accounts by the prime movers of this paradigm shift. In Indochina, for example, the Marines not only held territory but engaged in now-legendary confrontational battles at Hue and Khe Sanh. As a percentage of those engaged, the Marines suffered higher casualties than any other branch of the service. In the post-Vietnam assessment, however, the USMC absorbed Sun Tzu's aspects of Asian warfare and returned to its historical DNA in fighting "small wars" to evolve a superior alternative to the battlefield. The institutionalization of maneuver philosophy began with the Marine Corps' educational system, analyzing the actual battlespace of warfare-be it humanitarian assistance, regular set-piece battles, or irregular guerrilla war-and the role that the leadership cadre of the Marine Corps played in this evolutionary transition from attrition to maneuver. This change has sometimes been incorrectly portrayed (including by the Congressional Military Reform Caucus) as a disruptive or forced evolution. Analysis from former commandants of the Marine Corps to junior officers on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere demonstrate otherwise. The ability of the Marines to impact the battlefield-and help achieve our strategic goals-has only increased during the post-Cold War era. Throughout The Marine Corps Way of War, the voices of the Marines themselves, in action or through analysis, describe how "the few, the proud" will continue to be America's cutting-edge force in the future as we move through the 21st Century. This new work is must-reading for not only every Marine, but for everyone interested in the evolution of the world's finest military force. Email: renee@savasbeatie.com Publisher: Savas Beatie, 2017 Ordering Info: Amazon or publisher

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by John Rodgaard, Robert Moore HMS Venomous was a destroyer of the V & W Class, the most advanced in the world when built and arguably the most successful ever. Sixty-nine ships were built at the end of the Great War. By the end of World War II all had been sunk or scrapped but during those thirty years thousands of men served on them. This is possibly the most detailed study yet of the contribution made by a typical “old warrior” of this class to winning the war with end notes and citations plus a list of all its officers from 1919-46 and a list of known ratings. It begins with a comparative survey of the world’s destroyers in 1919 and ends with a list of all the V & Ws giving date of construction and ultimate fate. The story of HMS Venomous is told by its officers and crew and illustrated with their unique photographs taken in the heat of the action plus paintings, drawings and maps. In the prestigious Naval Review of August 2010, CDR Alastair Wilson, RN Ret wrote, " I would rate this as being up in the same class as ‘The Cruel Sea’ for a picture of small ship life in World War 2." Email: john_rodgaard@yahoo.com Publisher: Holywell Publishing, United Kingdom, 2010 Ordering Info: Amazon, or directly from the author. See www.holywellhousepublishing.co.uk

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by Anthony Piscitelli The Marine Corps Way of War: The Evolution of the U.S. Marine Corps from Attrition to Maneuver Warfare in the Post-Vietnam Era examines the evolving doctrine, weapons, and capability of the United States Marine Corps during the four decades since our last great conflict in Asia. As author Anthony Piscitelli demonstrates, the USMC has maintained its position as the nation's foremost striking force while shifting its thrust from a reliance upon attrition to a return to maneuver warfare. Piscitelli methodically explains the evolution by using traditional and first-person accounts by the prime movers of this paradigm shift. In Indochina, for example, the Marines not only held territory but engaged in now-legendary confrontational battles at Hue and Khe Sanh. As a percentage of those engaged, the Marines suffered higher casualties than any other branch of the service. In the post-Vietnam assessment, however, the USMC absorbed Sun Tzu's aspects of Asian warfare and returned to its historical DNA in fighting "small wars" to evolve a superior alternative to the battlefield. The institutionalization of maneuver philosophy began with the Marine Corps' educational system, analyzing the actual battlespace of warfare-be it humanitarian assistance, regular set-piece battles, or irregular guerrilla war-and the role that the leadership cadre of the Marine Corps played in this evolutionary transition from attrition to maneuver. This change has sometimes been incorrectly portrayed (including by the Congressional Military Reform Caucus) as a disruptive or forced evolution. Analysis from former commandants of the Marine Corps to junior officers on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere demonstrate otherwise. The ability of the Marines to impact the battlefield-and help achieve our strategic goals-has only increased during the post-Cold War era. Throughout The Marine Corps Way of War, the voices of the Marines themselves, in action or through analysis, describe how "the few, the proud" will continue to be America's cutting-edge force in the future as we move through the 21st Century. This new work is must-reading for not only every Marine, but for everyone interested in the evolution of the world's finest military force. Email: renee@savasbeatie.com Publisher: Savas Beatie, 2017 Ordering Info: Amazon or publisher

The Naval Order of the United States Junior Division History Award: Midshipman 4/c Justine A. Ransdell for her paper “Eradicating Mandatory Chapel at the Naval Academy: A Fight for Constitutional Rights”

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Articles 1943: Bismarck Sea – MacArthur’s Air Corps Sinks Entire Jap Convoy 1941: Royal Navy Rules the Med After Routing Modern Italian Fleet 1898: Oregon’s Famous 14,00 – Mile Dash to Cuba Night Action off Matapan Costs Axis Three Cruisers, Costs Italy its Will to Fight 1943: Where the Hell are the Komandorski Islands, Anyway? 1862: Ironclads Introduce New Era of Sea Warfare In Duel at Hampton Roads 1811: At the Battle of Lissa, Nelson Protégé Takes the Measure of the French

Articles 1943: “The Slot” Remains Hirohito’s Private Lake as Tokyo Express Clobbers U.S. with Torpedoes 1704: As Naval Prizes Go, Gibralter was England’s Brass Ring, and the Royal Marines Took it for Her Late Breaking News from Nelson’s Victory at the Nile in 1798 1944: Guam and Tinian Follow Saipan as Navy, Maines, Army Provide Bases for Air Force to Send Bombers Against Jap Homeland

Articles 1813: “We Have Met the Enemy, and They are Ours…”; Perry’s Lake Erie Victory Permits Harrison’s Army to Recapture Detroit 1776: An Army Sergeant was the First Commander of an American Submarine to Attack the Enemy 1944: Allies Sink Six Prisoner – Laden Jap Ships; Death Toll Greater than Saipan, Tarawa, and Iwo 1939: German U-Boat Sinks British Passenger Liner Carrying Civilians Away from Newly – Declared War

Articles 1943: Tarawa – Marines Get the Job Done, But Central Pacific Campaign Won’t Be Easy Gilbert Island Invasions are Nimitz’s First Step on Long Road to Tokyo 5,200 Japanese Defenders on Benito Island Fought for Three Days, Until Only 17 of Them Were Alive 1812: Invasion of Canada Halted When Soldiers Won’t Leave U.S. “Makin Taken”, Crows Dispatch from Army General, But Nimitz Fumes as Delays Endanger U.S. Fleet 1932: Allies Take Offensive Against Axis with U.S. Led Invasion of Northwest Africa 1759: Wild Weather, Treacherous Waters Don’t Deter Hawke in Battle with Conflains

Articles 1941: Those Who Could Fight Back: Mess Attendant Among Many Heroes of Japanese Sneak Attack 1812: Old Ironsides Defeats HMS Java in Battle off Brazil 1914: Royal Navy, Defeated at Coronel, Exacts Revenge in Full at Falklands – The Famous Destruction of von Spee’s Asiatic Fleet in South Atlantic Waters 1937: On a Sunny Sunday in December, Japanese Attack Panay without Warning

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ADM James Winnefeld with CAPT Kris Carlock

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CDR Bryan Lethcoe with CAPT Pete Peterson, USN (Ret)

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President Bush, recipient of the Naval Order’s Admiral of the Navy George Dewey Award in 2002, and Mrs. Bush were honored guests opening the George H. W. Bush Gallery on December 7, 2009.

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CAPT Ken Johnson and CDR Lou Orsini

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Chaplain General, CDR Michael Zuffoletto

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Captain John Rodgaard (USN, Ret), representing the Naval Order of the U.S., Rear Admiral (Sel) David Dwyer representing Admiral Michelle Howard and USNAVEUR, and Lt. Commander Ralph Day (USN, Ret) representing the Ancient Order of Hibernians at the ceremony to unveil the historic marker that now marks the centennial of the arrival of the U.S. Fleet under Admiral Taussig in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland.

The T.S. Admiral Somers Sea Cadets of Bermuda lead the procession from the town square to St. Peter's Church in St. George's Parish, Bermuda, where the wreath-laying ceremony takes place. They carry the flag of Bermuda and the flag of the U.S. with 13 stars.

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The Gonzales or "Come and Take It" flag was designed and painted by Cynthia Burns and Evaline DeWitt and was allegedly used at the battle of Gonzales in October 1835. The flag may have been carried by Stephen F. Austin's volunteer army to the siege of Bexar. From "The Handbook of Texas", Texas State Historical Association, https://www.tshaonline.org/home/

A graphic in support of 2018 Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This year, Navy commands are encouraged to celebrate and reflect on the theme "Unite Our Vision by Working Together," which emphasizes the importance of embracing diversity and promoting unity. (U.S. Navy graphic/Released)